Marstetten castle ruins

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Marstetten castle ruins
Reconstruction attempt - south view

Reconstruction attempt - south view

Alternative name (s): Marstetten Castle
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Aitrach - Marstetten - "Burghalde"
Geographical location 47 ° 56 '53 "  N , 10 ° 4' 39"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '53 "  N , 10 ° 4' 39"  E
Height: 657.8  m above sea level NN
Reconstruction attempt - inner courtyard

The Marstetten castle ruins are located northwest of Aitrach on the Marstetten district , a district of Aitrach in the Ravensburg district in Baden-Württemberg . The facility is owned by Waldburg-Zeil .

Geographical location

The Spornburg extends to 657.8  m above sea level. NN high Burghalde in the Zeiler gravel field on the edge of the Illertal . The ruin is now located directly on the L314 Bad Wurzach - Aitrach road and consists of the Alt-Marstetten Castle south of the road and the newer part, which is north of the road.

history

Marstetten Castle derived its name from the fact that it acted as a border marker between two districts . This function as a border marker dates back to around the year 838. On the one hand, the Illergau was separated from the Nibelgau , on the other hand, the area of ​​the Kempten monastery was separated from the area of the Ottobeuren monastery .
The county of Marstetten had high jurisdiction . The place of jurisdiction was Memmingen .
Marstetten included goods in the following settlements:

  • Aitrach
  • Marstetten, Vogelherd and Pfänders
  • Mooshausen
  • Aichstetten
  • Ferthofen
  • Tannheim and Kronwinkel
  • Eschach
  • Benningen
  • Heimertingen
  • Kellcoin
  • several goods in Memmingen

The castle was probably built on the Schlossberg in the 11th century by a branch of the Margraves of Ursin-Ronsberg . During the Thirty Years War the castle was destroyed by Swedish troops and not rebuilt afterwards.

Timeline of the Marstetten castle ruins

Lordship of Marstetten with blood ban and Iller customs

  • 838 Kemptic market place
  • 1125 Rupert von Marstetten from the Ursin-Ronsberg house
  • 1281 Fief from Kempten Abbey
  • 1351 that of Königsegg
  • Looted by the farmers in 1525
  • 1566 the imperial inheritance meal of Waldburg
  • 1675 Wurzachisch

gallery

  • Stone tablet on the castle ruins (after Dr. Merk)

  • South inner courtyard of the Marstetten castle ruins

  • Burgtor area

  • Coat of arms of the county of Marstetten

  • Masonry

literature

  • Hans Ulrich Rudolf (eds.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0508-6 , pp. 20-27.
  • Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the Allgäu - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1602-9 , pp. 32-34.
  • Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 2: Castle ruins in the West Allgäu and in the neighboring Vorarlberg, in the Württemberg Allgäu, in the northern Allgäu around Memmingen, in the northeast Allgäu around Kaufbeuren and Obergünzburg as well as in the eastern Allgäu and in the adjacent Tyrol . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-115-7 , pp. 148-161.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The History of Illerthales (from 1862) ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / heimatpfleger.dein-allgaeu.de
  2. ↑ a b Chiseled stone tablet on the Marstetten castle ruins